For the last couple of days at Supercomputer 2011 we’ve been demoing WorldWide Telescope being driven via Kinect for Windows – probably the single largest Kinect driven application out there. While we’ve done something like this before (ie. Mix...

There is a new release of the Python Tools for Visual Studio and it includes Pyvot : a connector to Excel that allow data transfer and manipulation – check out the tutorial . It also has a PyKinect , to leverage Kinect for new natural user interactions...

Earlier today I had the pleasure to give the kickoff talk for the release of The Fourth Paradigm book in Portuguese . Being able to highlight the thinking's of Jim Gray on which the book is based and the scientists who wrote articles for the book...